He is accused of torturing and beating 8-year old Gabriel Fernandez to death, but now he’s rejecting a plea deal that will take the death penalty off the table.
Isauro Aguirre and Pearl Fernandez are on trial for the murder of Gabriel Fernandez, Pearl’s 8-year old son who died in May. Pearl has already accepted a plea deal that puts her in jail for life with no possibility of parole, but no possibility of the death penalty either. Reports earlier stated Aguirre, Pearl Fernandez’s boyfriend, had accepted the plea deal but now sources state he has rejected it.
Gabriel Fernandez, according to court testimony and the District Attorney was tortured worse than a prisoner of war. The couple also called him “gay,” and “they doused him with pepper spray, forced him to eat his own vomit and locked him in a cabinet with a sock stuffed in his mouth to muffle his screams,” court records state.
That is just a small excerpt of the horrors inflicted on the 8-year old.
Now, NBC Los Angeles is reporting that “sources close to the case” state “Isauro Aguirre has not agreed to the deal that calls for life in prison without the possibility of parole and no appeals, the sources told NBC4 Thursday.”
The plan was for Aguirre and his ex-girlfriend, Pearl Fernandez, Gabriel’s mother, to plead guilty to first degree murder and torture charges with special circumstances, sources close to the case said last week.
The defendants have until a Dec. 3 court hearing to accept the deal or not and go to trial on murder charges. The plea deal was officially submitted in court on Thursday.
As The New Civil Rights Movement reported earlier, the Facebook page Gabriel’s Justice, which has been calling for justice for the eight-year old and is organizing its followers to attend the sentencing, support the plea deal, calling it, “a great thing.”
The big thing here is, there was a plea agreement where the defendants are agreeing to plead guilty and receive life without the possibility of parole. This means, by not pushing for trial, we do not have to waste more tax-dollars on the defendants, we do not have to pull the babies in to do more recounting of events as witnesses and this means that those two people will NEVER have the ability to get out or even the 3 auto chances they get to appeal that accompanies the Death Penalty. Life without saves us money, as tax-payers, and keeps them behind bars. You say, how is this fair punishment? Well, think of it in the terms of what torture Gabriel went through. He was told what to eat, where he could urinate and defecate and basically treated like an animal for 8 months. They will not be allowed to be free until they die, in prison.
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Hat tip: LGBTQ Nation